Free Housing Data from CMHC Re: [spno-data] FYI - 2011 Canadian Housing Observer (CHMC)
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Free housing data. Normally these datasets are for sale, it is great to see them available for free. I hope CMHC continues with this trend. CMHC is a government-owned corporation and I am uncertain how open government and open data at the federal level affects them if at all.
The interactive data visualization tool is also quite useful.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ted Hildebrandt <[hidden email]> wrote:
-- Tracey P. Lauriault 613-234-2805 "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective". Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940, (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf) |
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Re: Free Housing Data from CMHC Re: [spno-data] FYI - 2011 Canadian Housing Observer (CHMC)
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I've been able to request data from CMHC via email at no cost. Specifically, they provided Excel files for the data tables published on their site as Rental and Housing Market Report PDFs.
On 2012-01-10, at 10:31 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
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Re: Free Housing Data from CMHC Re: [spno-data] FYI - 2011 Canadian Housing Observer (CHMC)
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That is excellent, James. I on the other hand have had to spend a couple thousand dollars of project money on acquiring data about housing and homelessness. So it depends on what you ask for and the resolution you want it at. For example, if you are asking for census metropolitan areas the data are available at no costs, however, CMA data is not very helpful for city or sub-city analysis. If you are asking for very basic data it will be for free, however, if you are asking for # of coops, # of social housing units, etc. those data come with a fee.
Even the data they released here is CMA data, which is nice, but not the detailed data most want to work with. I am very appreciative of how they released these data, however CHMC has a ton of data and this is but the tip of the iceberg.
The Federal government does not have a mandate for cities, and this is very much reflected in how data are aggregated, and CMHC is no different, even if we live in wards and in cities. I hope we can get the open data strategies to consider data aggregation, as that will be the next big issues. Data will be released but at non standardize and far to large an aggregation for them to be useful.
Cheers
t
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
-- Tracey P. Lauriault 613-234-2805 "Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective". Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940, (http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf) |
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